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Bell-shaped cup and saucer with butterflies, floral scrolls and auspicious objects in panels
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Bell-shaped cup and saucer of porcelain with lobed wall, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, black and gold. On the ground of the saucer in the center a rosette of stylized flower scrolls; around it a band with flower scrolls and butterflies alternating with three cartouches with luck symbols: fruit basket (finger lemon, peach), lotus flower with pod or books and rolls. The cup with the same decoration. A crack in the wall of the cup. Famille rose.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBell-shaped cup and saucer with butterflies, floral scrolls and auspicious objects in panels. c. 1725 - c. 1749. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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